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Ireland v. UK: Revisiting the Treatment of the 'Hooded Men'

Philip Leach, Jurist | 06 December 2014

The Irish government announced this week that it is applying to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to re-open the case it instigated in the early 1970s against the UK government concerning the treatment in detention of fourteen IRA suspects, following their arrest by the British army under in...

The Hooded Men

CAJ and PFC Press release | 24 November 2014

The Committee on the Administration (CAJ) and the Pat Finucane Centre (PFC) welcome Amnesty International’s call to the Irish Government that it seeks to re-open the case it took against the UK in relation to the use of the "five interrogation techniques" inflicted on 14 men when internment was intr...